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IVECO Irisbus Scores 60 Bus Deal with Madrid

Monday, 25 June 2007

Irisbus Iveco Cityclass CNG buses during delivery in Burgos

Spain, Madrid

30 for Seville & 2 for Burgos too

Madrid’s municipal company for urban transport, EMT de Madrid has chosen Irisbus Iveco in their latest tender as the only supplier for its CNG fleet of urban buses with the inclusion of 60 new CityClass CNG units. With this order, EMT will have 350 CNG buses in its fleet by the end of 2007.

All the units will have a rigid configuration and a length of 12 m and will be fitted with the Iveco Cursor 8 CNG engine, with a 7.8 litre displacement, a maximum power rating of 200 kW from 1750 to 2000 r/min, and a maximum torque of 1100 Nm from 1100 to 1700 r/min.

This engine, like all Iveco natural gas engines, complies with E.E.V levels for the emission of exhaust pollution giving much lower values than those required from the current European emission regulation, for example: in accordance with the European standard 2005/55/EC (Euro 4), it emits 0.53 g/kWh of NOx while the E.E.V. limit for this pollutant is situated at 2 g/kWh. This level of about 0.5 g/kWh will be the probable value of the future Euro 6 emission regulation.

Besides, Irisbus Iveco is delivering 30 units of its CityClass CNG model to the municipal transport company of Seville (TUSSAM). The units, with a length of 12 m will be added to the current CNG bus fleet of 50.

In June, Burgos, a city in the north of Spain put in service two new CityClass CNG units , these have been added to the current CNG bus fleet of 12 units.

The total Irisbus Iveco CNG bus fleet in Europe now consists of more than 3,900 units.

Source: NGV Global